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<h1>gitformat-index(5) Manual Page</h1>
<h2 id="_name">NAME</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<p>gitformat-index - Git index format</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="content">
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_synopsis">SYNOPSIS</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="verseblock">
<pre class="content">$GIT_DIR/index</pre>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_description">DESCRIPTION</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Git index format</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_the_git_index_file_has_the_following_format">The Git index file has the following format</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>All binary numbers are in network byte order.
In a repository using the traditional SHA-1, checksums and object IDs
(object names) mentioned below are all computed using SHA-1.  Similarly,
in SHA-256 repositories, these values are computed using SHA-256.
Version 2 is described here unless stated otherwise.</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>A 12-byte header consisting of</p>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>4-byte signature:
  The signature is { 'D', 'I', 'R', 'C' } (stands for "dircache")</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>4-byte version number:
  The current supported versions are 2, 3 and 4.</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>32-bit number of index entries.</pre>
</div>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>A number of sorted index entries (see below).</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Extensions</p>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>Extensions are identified by signature. Optional extensions can
be ignored if Git does not understand them.</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>4-byte extension signature. If the first byte is 'A'..'Z' the
extension is optional and can be ignored.</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>32-bit size of the extension</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>Extension data</pre>
</div>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>Hash checksum over the content of the index file before this checksum.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_index_entry">Index entry</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>Index entries are sorted in ascending order on the name field,
interpreted as a string of unsigned bytes (i.e. memcmp() order, no
localization, no special casing of directory separator '/'). Entries
with the same name are sorted by their stage field.</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>An index entry typically represents a file. However, if sparse-checkout
is enabled in cone mode (`core.sparseCheckoutCone` is enabled) and the
`extensions.sparseIndex` extension is enabled, then the index may
contain entries for directories outside of the sparse-checkout definition.
These entries have mode `040000`, include the `SKIP_WORKTREE` bit, and
the path ends in a directory separator.</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>32-bit ctime seconds, the last time a file's metadata changed
  this is stat(2) data</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>32-bit ctime nanosecond fractions
  this is stat(2) data</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>32-bit mtime seconds, the last time a file's data changed
  this is stat(2) data</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>32-bit mtime nanosecond fractions
  this is stat(2) data</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>32-bit dev
  this is stat(2) data</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>32-bit ino
  this is stat(2) data</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>32-bit mode, split into (high to low bits)</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>16-bit unused, must be zero</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>4-bit object type
  valid values in binary are 1000 (regular file), 1010 (symbolic link)
  and 1110 (gitlink)</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>3-bit unused, must be zero</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>9-bit unix permission. Only 0755 and 0644 are valid for regular files.
Symbolic links and gitlinks have value 0 in this field.</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>32-bit uid
  this is stat(2) data</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>32-bit gid
  this is stat(2) data</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>32-bit file size
  This is the on-disk size from stat(2), truncated to 32-bit.</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>Object name for the represented object</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>A 16-bit 'flags' field split into (high to low bits)</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>1-bit assume-valid flag</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>1-bit extended flag (must be zero in version 2)</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>2-bit stage (during merge)</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>12-bit name length if the length is less than 0xFFF; otherwise 0xFFF
is stored in this field.</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>(Version 3 or later) A 16-bit field, only applicable if the
"extended flag" above is 1, split into (high to low bits).</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>1-bit reserved for future</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>1-bit skip-worktree flag (used by sparse checkout)</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>1-bit intent-to-add flag (used by "git add -N")</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>13-bit unused, must be zero</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>Entry path name (variable length) relative to top level directory
  (without leading slash). '/' is used as path separator. The special
  path components ".", ".." and ".git" (without quotes) are disallowed.
  Trailing slash is also disallowed.</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>The exact encoding is undefined, but the '.' and '/' characters
are encoded in 7-bit ASCII and the encoding cannot contain a NUL
byte (iow, this is a UNIX pathname).</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>(Version 4) In version 4, the entry path name is prefix-compressed
  relative to the path name for the previous entry (the very first
  entry is encoded as if the path name for the previous entry is an
  empty string).  At the beginning of an entry, an integer N in the
  variable width encoding (the same encoding as the offset is encoded
  for OFS_DELTA pack entries; see linkgit:gitformat-pack[5]) is stored, followed
  by a NUL-terminated string S.  Removing N bytes from the end of the
  path name for the previous entry, and replacing it with the string S
  yields the path name for this entry.</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>1-8 nul bytes as necessary to pad the entry to a multiple of eight bytes
while keeping the name NUL-terminated.</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>(Version 4) In version 4, the padding after the pathname does not
exist.</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>Interpretation of index entries in split index mode is completely
different. See below for details.</pre>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_extensions">Extensions</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="_cache_tree">Cache tree</h3>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>Since the index does not record entries for directories, the cache
entries cannot describe tree objects that already exist in the object
database for regions of the index that are unchanged from an existing
commit. The cache tree extension stores a recursive tree structure that
describes the trees that already exist and completely match sections of
the cache entries. This speeds up tree object generation from the index
for a new commit by only computing the trees that are "new" to that
commit. It also assists when comparing the index to another tree, such
as `HEAD^{tree}`, since sections of the index can be skipped when a tree
comparison demonstrates equality.</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>The recursive tree structure uses nodes that store a number of cache
entries, a list of subnodes, and an object ID (OID). The OID references
the existing tree for that node, if it is known to exist. The subnodes
correspond to subdirectories that themselves have cache tree nodes. The
number of cache entries corresponds to the number of cache entries in
the index that describe paths within that tree's directory.</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>The extension tracks the full directory structure in the cache tree
extension, but this is generally smaller than the full cache entry list.</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>When a path is updated in index, Git invalidates all nodes of the
recursive cache tree corresponding to the parent directories of that
path. We store these tree nodes as being "invalid" by using "-1" as the
number of cache entries. Invalid nodes still store a span of index
entries, allowing Git to focus its efforts when reconstructing a full
cache tree.</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>The signature for this extension is { 'T', 'R', 'E', 'E' }.</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>A series of entries fill the entire extension; each of which
consists of:</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>NUL-terminated path component (relative to its parent directory);</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>ASCII decimal number of entries in the index that is covered by the
tree this entry represents (entry_count);</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>A space (ASCII 32);</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>ASCII decimal number that represents the number of subtrees this
tree has;</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>A newline (ASCII 10); and</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Object name for the object that would result from writing this span
of index as a tree.</p>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>An entry can be in an invalidated state and is represented by having
a negative number in the entry_count field. In this case, there is no
object name and the next entry starts immediately after the newline.
When writing an invalid entry, -1 should always be used as entry_count.</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>The entries are written out in the top-down, depth-first order.  The
first entry represents the root level of the repository, followed by the
first subtree--let's call this A--of the root level (with its name
relative to the root level), followed by the first subtree of A (with
its name relative to A), and so on. The specified number of subtrees
indicates when the current level of the recursive stack is complete.</pre>
</div>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="_resolve_undo">Resolve undo</h3>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>A conflict is represented in the index as a set of higher stage entries.
When a conflict is resolved (e.g. with "git add path"), these higher
stage entries will be removed and a stage-0 entry with proper resolution
is added.</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>When these higher stage entries are removed, they are saved in the
resolve undo extension, so that conflicts can be recreated (e.g. with
"git checkout -m"), in case users want to redo a conflict resolution
from scratch.</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>The signature for this extension is { 'R', 'E', 'U', 'C' }.</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>A series of entries fill the entire extension; each of which
consists of:</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>NUL-terminated pathname the entry describes (relative to the root of
the repository, i.e. full pathname);</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Three NUL-terminated ASCII octal numbers, entry mode of entries in
stage 1 to 3 (a missing stage is represented by "0" in this field);
and</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>At most three object names of the entry in stages from 1 to 3
(nothing is written for a missing stage).</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="_split_index">Split index</h3>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>In split index mode, the majority of index entries could be stored
in a separate file. This extension records the changes to be made on
top of that to produce the final index.</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>The signature for this extension is { 'l', 'i', 'n', 'k' }.</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>The extension consists of:</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>Hash of the shared index file. The shared index file path
is $GIT_DIR/sharedindex.&lt;hash&gt;. If all bits are zero, the
index does not require a shared index file.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>An ewah-encoded delete bitmap, each bit represents an entry in the
shared index. If a bit is set, its corresponding entry in the
shared index will be removed from the final index.  Note, because
a delete operation changes index entry positions, but we do need
original positions in replace phase, it&#8217;s best to just mark
entries for removal, then do a mass deletion after replacement.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>An ewah-encoded replace bitmap, each bit represents an entry in
the shared index. If a bit is set, its corresponding entry in the
shared index will be replaced with an entry in this index
file. All replaced entries are stored in sorted order in this
index. The first "1" bit in the replace bitmap corresponds to the
first index entry, the second "1" bit to the second entry and so
on. Replaced entries may have empty path names to save space.</p>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>The remaining index entries after replaced ones will be added to the
final index. These added entries are also sorted by entry name then
stage.</pre>
</div>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_untracked_cache">Untracked cache</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>Untracked cache saves the untracked file list and necessary data to
verify the cache. The signature for this extension is { 'U', 'N',
'T', 'R' }.</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>The extension starts with</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>A sequence of NUL-terminated strings, preceded by the size of the
sequence in variable width encoding. Each string describes the
environment where the cache can be used.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Stat data of $GIT_DIR/info/exclude. See "Index entry" section from
ctime field until "file size".</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Stat data of core.excludesFile</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>32-bit dir_flags (see struct dir_struct)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Hash of $GIT_DIR/info/exclude. A null hash means the file
does not exist.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Hash of core.excludesFile. A null hash means the file does
not exist.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>NUL-terminated string of per-dir exclude file name. This usually
is ".gitignore".</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>The number of following directory blocks, variable width
encoding. If this number is zero, the extension ends here with a
following NUL.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>A number of directory blocks in depth-first-search order, each
consists of</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>The number of untracked entries, variable width encoding.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>The number of sub-directory blocks, variable width encoding.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>The directory name terminated by NUL.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>A number of untracked file/dir names terminated by NUL.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The remaining data of each directory block is grouped by type:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>An ewah bitmap, the n-th bit marks whether the n-th directory has
valid untracked cache entries.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>An ewah bitmap, the n-th bit records "check-only" bit of
read_directory_recursive() for the n-th directory.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>An ewah bitmap, the n-th bit indicates whether hash and stat data
is valid for the n-th directory and exists in the next data.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>An array of stat data. The n-th data corresponds with the n-th
"one" bit in the previous ewah bitmap.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>An array of hashes. The n-th hash corresponds with the n-th "one" bit
in the previous ewah bitmap.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>One NUL.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_file_system_monitor_cache">File System Monitor cache</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>The file system monitor cache tracks files for which the core.fsmonitor
hook has told us about changes.  The signature for this extension is
{ 'F', 'S', 'M', 'N' }.</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>The extension starts with</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>32-bit version number: the current supported versions are 1 and 2.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>(Version 1)
   64-bit time: the extension data reflects all changes through the given
time which is stored as the nanoseconds elapsed since midnight,
January 1, 1970.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>(Version 2)
A null terminated string: an opaque token defined by the file system
monitor application.  The extension data reflects all changes relative
to that token.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>32-bit bitmap size: the size of the CE_FSMONITOR_VALID bitmap.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>An ewah bitmap, the n-th bit indicates whether the n-th index entry
is not CE_FSMONITOR_VALID.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_end_of_index_entry">End of Index Entry</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>The End of Index Entry (EOIE) is used to locate the end of the variable
length index entries and the beginning of the extensions. Code can take
advantage of this to quickly locate the index extensions without having
to parse through all of the index entries.</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>Because it must be able to be loaded before the variable length cache
entries and other index extensions, this extension must be written last.
The signature for this extension is { 'E', 'O', 'I', 'E' }.</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>The extension consists of:</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>32-bit offset to the end of the index entries</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Hash over the extension types and their sizes (but not
their contents).  E.g. if we have "TREE" extension that is N-bytes
long, "REUC" extension that is M-bytes long, followed by "EOIE",
then the hash would be:</p>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>Hash("TREE" + &lt;binary-representation-of-N&gt; +
	"REUC" + &lt;binary-representation-of-M&gt;)</pre>
</div>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_index_entry_offset_table">Index Entry Offset Table</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>The Index Entry Offset Table (IEOT) is used to help address the CPU
cost of loading the index by enabling multi-threading the process of
converting cache entries from the on-disk format to the in-memory format.
The signature for this extension is { 'I', 'E', 'O', 'T' }.</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>The extension consists of:</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>32-bit version (currently 1)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>A number of index offset entries each consisting of:</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>32-bit offset from the beginning of the file to the first cache entry
in this block of entries.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>32-bit count of cache entries in this block</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_sparse_directory_entries">Sparse Directory Entries</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>When using sparse-checkout in cone mode, some entire directories within
the index can be summarized by pointing to a tree object instead of the
entire expanded list of paths within that tree. An index containing such
entries is a "sparse index". Index format versions 4 and less were not
implemented with such entries in mind. Thus, for these versions, an
index containing sparse directory entries will include this extension
with signature { 's', 'd', 'i', 'r' }. Like the split-index extension,
tools should avoid interacting with a sparse index unless they understand
this extension.</pre>
</div>
</div>
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<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_git">GIT</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Part of the <a href="git.html">git(1)</a> suite</p>
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